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Home ownership start-up Jrny chooses Sikoia to power its onboarding and affordability

Home ownership start-up Jrny selects Sikoia to support its onboarding and affordability assessments, helping “generation rent” access the dream of home ownership. Sikoia’s unified data platform provides a single point of access to all the data and insights needed to onboard and assess new customers all while supporting a best-in-class consumer experience.

By Alastair Bulger • 2 min read

London November 1st 2023: Sikoia, the unified data platform for financial services, today announced that it has been selected by Jrny, an emerging fintech that helps generation rent access the housing market for the first time. Jrny have chosen Sikoia to quickly integrate broad onboarding and verification capabilities into their customer-facing onboarding flows, including ID verification, AML screening, Open Banking access and consumer credit reports.

This agreement reflects the increasing demand for access to high quality and accurate data to enhance and extend customer onboarding and assessment.

Alexis Rog, founder and CEO of Sikoia, said, "We're delighted to be trusted by Jrny to provide them with access to the consumer identity and financial data they need to help more people onto the property ladder. This speaks to the completeness of Sikoia’s offering, with turnkey access to KYC capabilities, banking and affordability data, and consumer credit insights.”

Vincent Huber, co-founder of Jrny, said, “For generation rent, access to the property market has been a pipedream. With Sikoia, we can access the data and insights we need to help more people make their first step onto the property ladder. We’re excited to help more people achieve their dream of homeownership.”

About Sikoia:

Sikoia is a category-defining Unified Data Platform (UDP) and orchestration layer that enriches and aggregates customer data from disparate sources and systems to automate compliance and risk processes, such as customer onboarding and verification, or portfolio monitoring. Client engagement and risk operations teams use the Sikoia Portal to access a fully-enriched, 360° view of the customer, and power operational efficiencies, delivering faster decisioning and powering best-in-class customer experiences. For more information, visit www.sikoia.com

About Jrny:

Jrny is on a mission to redefine the route to homeownership and home equity wealth for millions of young adults who are currently trapped renting. They’re doing so by introducing an innovative rent-to-own model to the UK market. Their customers can live in their dream homes with a low deposit and gradually build home equity as they rent, which they can use to buy the home outright or cash out home equity wealth. For more information, visit www.joinjrny.com.  

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Alastair Bulger

Co-Founder & CCO, UK

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